Caption:
Verses with Tudor symbols. Motets. Flanders (Bruges?); circa 1516. (Whole folio) Elegiac couplets in honour of King Henry VIII celebrating the union of the Houses of York and Lancaster. The illumination shows a walled castle enclosing a rose tree and surrounded by sea. It incorporates symbols used by the early Tudors, including a dragon, lion, greyhound, pomegranate bush, daisy and marigold. Image taken from Motets. Originally published/produced in Flanders (Bruges?); circa 1516. . Source: Royal 11 E. XI, f.2. Language: Latin.